Added lots more photos to my site today. It's very time-consuming -- first I have to go through all of my snaps and pick out the few I want to use; then I have to scale them down so that they fit comfortably on a computer screen; then scale them down again for thumbnails; then add all the thumbnails to the online folder; then add all the full size photos and come up with caption for them; then put in all the links!!!!! No one part of the operation is particularly lengthy, but combine them all and they quickly start to eat into your time!!!!!! Oh well, I enjoy doing it -- it's nice to re-visit old memories.

Put up a couple of my new David C Roy kinetic sculptures. If you don't know what a kinetic sculpture is, you can find out here: www.woodthatworks.com The pieces I hung this evening are Gepetto and Phoenix. I'm not that fussed about Gepetto, now that I've studied it on my own wall -- it's a nice piece, but the shapes created by the wheels don't fluctuate randomly as they do on other pieces. If I'd spent a bit more time looking at it in the shop I probably wouldn't have purchased. Oh well -- too late now!! I absolutely LOVE Phoenix though -- it's an incredibly cool piece of moving art!!!!

Went to see a stage version of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4", performed by the Bruiser company from Northern Ireland. Very well acted, and the crowd seemed to enjoy it overall, but it didn't make much of an impact on me. I loved the book when I was a teenager, and read it many, many times, along with "The Growing Pains". But this adaptation either didn't capture the magic of the book, or else I've just turned into a grumpy 30-something who's difficult to please!!!!!!!!